A New Day with Gerry Hussey
Every day we wake up, we have a chance to start again. In this unique daily podcast with Ireland’s leading health and performance coach Gerry Hussey, you’ll find a mini retreat for the mind. Gerry empowers you to reset your mindset with short but powerful daily episodes featuring his take on everything that encompasses the human experience. With his unique blend of wisdom, psychology, science and philosophy, this podcast will become a daily ritual that you won’t want to miss.
Episodes
Find Your Way Back to Peace: Thursday
The version of life you think you should have may be the very thing stealing peace from the life you already do have.Today, Gerry continues the week’s exploration of peace by unpacking non-comparison, from the pressure of a perfect Christmas to the quiet damage caused by “should”. He explores how we compare our real lives to imagined ones, our inner feelings to other people’s outward appearances,
Find Your Way Back to Peace: Wednesday
Not every setback is a setback, and not every piece of luck is what it first appears to be.Today, Gerry continues the week’s journey into peace by exploring non-judgment, unpacking how quickly we label life as good or bad, fair or unfair, lucky or unlucky. Through the timeless story of the Chinese farmer, Gerry invites you to pause before judging a situation, another person or yourself, and to dis
Find Your Way Back to Peace: Tuesday
What if the thing keeping you stuck is not what happened, but the fight you are still having with it?Today, Gerry deepens the week’s exploration of peace by unpacking the power of non-resistance, explaining why acceptance is not weakness and how it can become the starting point for real change. Through powerful examples from sport, challenge and everyday life, Gerry invites you to move from “this
Find Your Way Back to Peace: Monday
There is a kind of peace we can find even when life isn't perfect. Today, Gerry begins the week by exploring why happiness may not be the ultimate goal we are really searching for, inviting you to look at peace as something deeper, quieter and already present within you. Through a powerful reflection on emotional resilience, letting go and the image of a disturbed lake becoming clear again, Gerry
Stop Waiting, Start Changing: Friday
At some point, staying stuck becomes a choice, but so does taking your power back.Today, Gerry closes the week with the simple ACE model for change, helping you decide whether to accept where you are, change your environment or response, or exit what no longer serves you, so you can step into more freedom, courage and choice.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any questions, suggestions or feedback to
Stop Waiting, Start Changing: Thursday
The weight of change is rarely just the decision itself, it is the fear of letting people down, getting it wrong, or carrying the guilt if it does not work out.Today, Gerry explores the hidden guilt that can hold us back from big decisions, inviting you to release the need to control every outcome, give your heart fully to the process, and trust that change may shape you in ways you cannot yet ima
Stop Waiting, Start Changing: Wednesday
The perfect time rarely arrives, and waiting for it can become the safest way to stay the same.Today, Gerry explores how the ego convinces us to delay change until some fictional future moment, challenging you to ask what you are really waiting for, where you may be pretending to wait while quietly quitting, and how to give yourself permission to begin today.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any ques
Stop Waiting, Start Changing: Tuesday
The life you want will not be built through one dramatic leap, but through the small choices you repeat every day.Today, Gerry explores how to move beyond short-term bursts of motivation and create real, lasting change, explaining why tiny shifts repeated over time can transform your confidence, health, mindset and sense of self.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any questions, suggestions or feedback
Stop Waiting, Start Changing: Monday
Change is one of the few certainties in life, but the story we tell ourselves about it can decide whether we feel trapped or transformed.Today, Gerry begins the week by exploring why change can bring up fear, worry and doubt, explaining how the ego clings to familiarity and inviting you to ask whether you are truly afraid of change, or simply afraid of the story you are telling yourself about it.F
Moving Through Emotions: Friday
The emotions you carry can either keep controlling your life, or become the doorway to your freedom.Today, Gerry closes the week with a simple but powerful meditation to help you meet your emotions without judgment, awaken the observer self, and gently ask what each feeling is here to teach you before choosing what you are ready to release.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any questions, suggestions
Moving Through Emotions: Thursday
Every ache, every knot, every tight breath may be your body trying to tell the story your mind has been avoiding.Today, Gerry explores the powerful connection between emotions and the body, explaining how fear, shame, anger and love can affect everything from tension to energy. He invites you to pause, breathe and ask what your body is really trying to tell you.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any q
Moving Through Emotions: Wednesday
A feeling can pass in 90 seconds, but the story we attach to it can keep it alive for years.Today, Gerry explains the difference between temporary emotions and deeper emotional defaults, exploring how we can “stop poking the bear”, create space with the breath, and begin to face what we have been avoiding so we can feel it, heal it and move through it.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any questions,
Moving Through Emotions: Tuesday
What we suppress does not disappear, it waits for the moment we are too tired to hold it down.Today, Gerry explores how blocked emotions can build beneath the surface, using the image of holding a ball under water to explain why anger, fear or frustration can suddenly spill out, and invites you to notice what emotion may be bubbling inside you and where it needs to move.Follow @anewdaypod and send
Moving Through Emotions: Monday
The emotions you feel are not who you are, they are messages moving through your body asking to be heard.Today, Gerry opens a new week by exploring what emotions really are, how they shape your thoughts, body and nervous system, and why learning to observe them without becoming them can help you move from fear into love.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any questions, suggestions or feedback to anewd
Regulating the Nervous System: Friday (Meditation)
Some of the things holding you down may be old beliefs, old fears and stories you no longer need to carry.Today, Gerry closes the series with a calming meditation to help regulate your nervous system, using breath, affirmations and a powerful hot air balloon visualisation. He invites you to imagine cutting the ropes that keep the balloon tied to the ground, releasing self-limiting beliefs and allo
Regulating the Nervous System: Thursday
Your week leaves clues about what your nervous system needs more of, and what it may be asking you to leave behind.Today, Gerry shares his weekly nervous system audit, a simple practice for noticing the people, places and moments that leave you feeling safe, calm and connected, or stressed, anxious and dysregulated. He explains how colour-coding your week can help you decide what to accept, what t
Regulating the Nervous System: Wednesday
Your subconscious beliefs about who you are may be setting the destination for your nervous system.Today, Gerry dives into the power of subconscious programmes, and how old beliefs around love, safety and self-worth can keep us stuck in familiar patterns. He shares simple ways to begin changing those beliefs, from simple affirmations to choosing more supportive “I am” statements.Follow @anewdaypod
Regulating the Nervous System: Tuesday
The past can live in the body, even when the mind has tried to move on.Today, Gerry explores how unresolved trauma can live in the nervous system, keeping us stressed, anxious or on high alert even when life has moved on. He explains why regulation sometimes means looking beyond the daily healthy habits, and beginning to ask what first made the body feel unsafe.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any q
Regulating the Nervous System: Monday
Regulating your nervous system can start with something as simple as a breath, a song, or a few minutes of movement.Today, Gerry explores the physical ways we can help the body move from stress into recovery, from slowing the breath and extending the exhale, to dancing, singing and activating the vagus nerve. He shares a simple morning practice to help release tension, move emotion through the bod
Understanding the Nervous System: Friday (Meditation)
We can become so used to feeling tired, tense and on edge that calm starts to feel unfamiliar.Today, Gerry explores what a regulated nervous system actually feels like, steady, present and able to meet challenge without being consumed by it. He guides you through a simple meditation using breath, stillness and an affirmation to help bring the body back to balance.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any
Understanding the Nervous System: Thursday
Do you understand how your body reacts to stress, and can you spot which nervous system response it jumps to?Today, Gerry explores the different stress states we can fall into, from fight and flight to freeze and fawn. He explains how pushing harder, avoiding everything, shutting down or people-pleasing can all be protective responses, and why recognising your own pattern without judgement is the
Understanding the Nervous System: Wednesday
Your nervous system is not only triggered by external forces, sometimes the storm is inside you. Today, Gerry explores five things that can dysregulate your nervous system, from noisy environments and daily pressure to unprocessed emotions, unresolved trauma and subconscious beliefs. He explains how the meaning we give to life’s events can keep the body on high alert, and invites you to notice wha
Understanding the Nervous System: Tuesday
Your body is always speaking to you. The question is, are you listening?Today, Gerry explores how emotions can show up in the body, from tension in your shoulders to a flutter in your stomach or a restless night’s sleep. He explains the difference between fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest, and why modern life can leave our nervous system stuck in “go” mode.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any ques
Understanding the Nervous System: Monday
That 4am worry, the tight chest, the snap reaction, what if they’re not random at all?This week, Gerry explains how your nervous system is constantly working to keep you safe, and why stress, tension and sleeplessness can be signals from the body rather than signs that something is wrong with you. He guides you through some simple breathing to check-in and help you reconnect with yourself.Follow @
The Dis-ease Of Distraction: Friday
After a week of exploring how distraction pulls us away from ourselves, today is an invitation to stop running and come back to now.Today, Gerry closes the week with a simple guided meditation to slow your nervous system, release the past, let the future wait, and reconnect with what truly matters in this moment by asking: What’s important now? Follow @anewdaypod and send us any questions, suggest
The Dis-ease Of Distraction: Thursday
Time cannot be managed back into meaning, but the way you show up in each hour can change everything.Today, Gerry takes you through how to do an audit on the 168 hours you have every week, to uncover where your time and energy are really going, helping you spot the hidden thieves like scrolling, procrastination and lukewarm commitments, so you can choose clearer no’s, fuller yeses and a more prese
The Dis-ease Of Distraction: Wednesday
The promise of “more” can keep us looking ahead, while the life we actually want is waiting in the moment we are already in.Today, Gerry explores the deeper truth behind distraction, unpacking what we are really searching for when we scroll, strive and keep reaching for the next thing, and inviting you to question what is enough so you can choose peace, connection and presence today. Follow @anewd
The Dis-ease Of Distraction: Tuesday
Distraction does not just steal your focus, it quietly steals your presence, your peace and the moments that make up your life.Today, Gerry unpacks the “dis-ease of distraction”, exploring how living in the past or future keeps the nervous system in fight or flight, and invites you inward to ask what you might be avoiding when you cannot sit still with yourself.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any q
The Dis-ease Of Distraction: Monday
So many of us spend our lives sprinting from one task to the next, chasing more without ever asking what fear might be driving the pace.Today, Gerry begins a new week on reclaiming presence, sharing the moment that made him question whether happiness had to wait for the next goal, and inviting you to explore what it would feel like to find peace and joy right now.Follow @anewdaypod and send us any
The Stories Of Our Inner Voice: Friday (Meditation)
After a week of exploring how your inner voice is formed, how it shapes your nervous system, and how it can hold you back or set you free, today is about choosing what you want that voice to become.Today, Gerry closes The Stories Of Our Inner Voice with a short but powerful meditation to help you soften the chatterbox brain, fact check old narratives, and begin to choose a new inner story rooted i
The Stories Of Our Inner Voice: Thursday
Every word your inner voice speaks is a tiny instruction to your body, able to flood you with cortisol, trigger your nervous system and pull you back into survival mode.Today, Gerry shares how your inner story can flip you into fight or flight, and explains the incredible “algorithm” of the brain called the reticular activating system, which creates a powerful feedback loop for your beliefs and st
The Stories Of Our Inner Voice: Wednesday
Before you ever learned the words for your feelings, your seven year old self was already absorbing stories about who you are and how the world works.Today, Gerry explains how the theta brain wave state of early childhood allows beliefs to be “downloaded” from parents, teachers and home life, and invites you to notice which of those old stories your inner voice is still quietly repeating.
The Stories Of Our Inner Voice: Tuesday
All day long, your inner voice is turning your life into a story that can either hold you back or help you grow.Today, Gerry explains why we have this inner voice in the first place and how it helps us make sense of the world, before inviting you to notice the words you use, especially under stress.
The Stories Of Our Inner Voice: Monday
Most of us live with a nonstop inner commentary that criticises, judges, and replays our mistakes without realising how deeply it’s shaping our nervous system, our beliefs, and our health.Today, Gerry begins a new week on The Stories Of Our Inner Voice, unpacking the difference between the chatterbox brain and a deeper, wiser inner knowing, and inviting you to start changing your inner story into
The Shadows We Cast: Friday
When our shadows leave us feeling untethered, how do we begin to learn that the world is safe?Today, Gerry takes you through simple, practical ways to teach your nervous system that the world can be a safe place through shifting your inner story, using gentle affirmations, and building calm through pauses and breath.
The Shadows We Cast: Thursday
As we navigate through the chaos of life, sometimes our biggest problem is right in front of us.Today, Gerry unpacks a hard truth about the shadows we cast, inviting you to look honestly at the impact you have on your environment, notice where your own patterns might be fuelling the tension, and consider what you’re ready to change.
The Shadows We Cast: Wednesday
Most of us grow up on autopilot, unaware of how the shadows we grew up in show up in our everyday lifeToday, Gerry takes you through a powerful reflection, inviting you to watch the “movie” of your last six months, notice your emotional default mode, and gently ask whether it’s healing or hurting you.
The Shadows We Cast: Tuesday
So many of us move through the world feeling scared, anxious and overwhelmed.Today, Gerry unpacks how our early childhood experiences can wire the nervous system into a sympathetic state (fight or flight) or parasympathetic state (calm and safe).
The Shadows We Cast: Monday
This week, Gerry is exploring the shadows we grew up in, the unseen emotional forces that quietly shaped who we are.Using the image of boats perfectly aligned by an invisible wind, he invites you to reflect on the hidden currents that have guided your life so far.
Chance & Choice: Friday (Meditation)
As we come to the end of this week, reflect on the inner work you’ve done around chance, choice and changing your personal reality.Gerry invites you to join him in meditation, to make space for yourself, to breath, and to remember that you are safe, loved, and free to choose.
Chance & Choice: Thursday
One of the greatest choices we get to make is who we want to be. Today, Gerry explores how nervous system regulation can dramatically change how we show up in the world, and help us to uncover the power within.
Chance & Choice: Wednesday
Do you keep yourself stuck by giving energy to the things you can’t control? Today, Gerry invites you stop living in the stories that hold you back and instead choose a story of power.
Chance & Choice: Tuesday
So often we don’t think, we just react, and it hurts us more than the moment itself.Today, Gerry explores how to move from stress-fuelled reactions to conscious, powerful responses.
Chance & Choice: Monday
Every single morning, we wake up with two gifts beside the bed: a chance and a choice.Today, Gerry asks: What’s challenging you right now, and what would an incredible response look like if you placed your energy, awareness, and attention on choice?
Trailer: A New Day with Gerry Hussey
Every day we wake up, we have a chance to start again, you have the power to choose your next steps and take control of your truth. In this unique daily podcast with Ireland’s leading health and performance coach Gerry Hussey, you’ll find a mini retreat for the mind.Gerry will empower you to reset your mindset with short but powerful daily episodes featuring his take on everyth
